Founders And Coders Quotes & Sayings

I find it very hard to take myself seriously. — Max Von Sydow

There are circumstances that must shatter you; and if you are not shattered, then you have not understood your circumstances. In such circumstances, it is a failure for your heart not to break. And it is pointless to put up a fight, for a fight will blind you to the opportunity that has been presented by your misfortune. Do you wish to persevere pridefully in the old life? Of course you do: the old life was a good life. But it is no longer available to you. It has been carried away, irreversibly. So there is only one thing to be done. Transformation must be met with transformation. Where there was the old life, let there be the new life. Do not persevere. Dignify the shock. Sink, so as to rise. — Leon Wieseltier

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring. — Ashley Montagu

I don't really have a New Year's resolution to go on a diet or anything like that. I am who I am, and I don't want to be somebody else. — Karolina Kurkova

New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate. — Harry Connick Jr.

In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused. — Michael Crichton

If you want to kill serious crime, you have to kill serious criminals! — Andrew Barrett

All ships ... we are now at battle stations. I expect this will now be known as the Second Battle of Fondor. — Karen Traviss